HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1834 FILED ON: 1/13/2009
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1555
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the Year Two Thousand Nine
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An Act to create the crime of solicitation..
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 274 of the general laws, as appearing in the 2002 Official Edition, is hereby amended, by inserting, after section 3, the following section:
SECTION 3A. Whoever attempts to cause another to commit a crime, whether the crime is actually committed or not, shall be guilty of the crime of solicitation and shall be punished in the same manner as punishment for the crime of conspiracy contained in section 7 of this chapter.